^ The last numbers I saw, China had 3x the population and 3x the number of "engineers" (nothing strange there), india had 4x our population but less engineers. This also doesn't take into account quality (a lot of the chinese engineering I've seen is terrible) and the fact that india and china tend to bulk their reported numbers up with IT and 2 year "technical" type degrees whereas our numbers are reflecting engineers with true 4 year+ degrees.

USA: 222,335
India: 215,000
China: 644,106



http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051212_623922.htm

[Edited on May 13, 2010 at 7:12 AM. Reason : ]

5/13/2010 7:11:41 AM

Quote :

"It seems that "smart people" know Shakespeare, know a little Latin, and know a lot of history, but there's almost no consideration paid to their knowledge of science or the natural world. If you can graduate from Harvard and get automatic respect from everyone in the nation but not know why the summer is hotter than winter ... you're not smart in my book."

There are some dumb people in every bunch. All Harvard grads aren't super geniuses or something: George W. Bush went there.

Quote :

"At a time where we need to be pushing more and more people to enter scientific fields, you have a bunch of shit for brains trying to convince people to stay as stupid as possible because some other shit for brains claimed a non-existent skydaddy said to do so in a fucking ancient text."

While science should be part of any well-rounded education, I don't think it should engulf all other topics of study. Forcing people into science isn't a good idea.

5/13/2010 7:38:34 AM

^yea education really needs to be pretty well-rounded. I hate the idea of engineers I know saying "ah it's ok; I'm an engineer so I don't need to know English well." But I also hate the people who are liberal arts majors who have to get their phone app out to calculate a tip.

When did we start deciding that the only important things to know and understand are in some narrow spectrum that directly relates to one's major in school?

5/13/2010 7:43:18 AM

7/14/2010 7:38:29 AM

I don't think there's any excuse for any moderately educated person to not know the difference between yea, yeah, and yay.

It seems to be about 50/50 on this website (and actually exactly 50/50 of the users on this page)

7/14/2010 8:42:20 AM

i don't know how i graduated with my interpretation of english spelling

7/14/2010 9:07:29 AM

^^^ i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh or in those fucking weird words like weird

7/14/2010 9:37:49 AM

alot

7/14/2010 10:08:02 AM

wait. there is a difference between yay, yea, and yeah?

7/14/2010 10:13:05 AM

Yeah. Someday people will understand that the opposite of nay is yea. Yay!

7/14/2010 10:20:28 AM

I always have trouble with guarantee.... I just can't remember it

Otherwise, I think I can spell just about anything (reasonable)

7/14/2010 10:23:17 AM

what about yeh?

7/14/2010 10:24:04 AM

That's the opposite of meh.

7/14/2010 10:25:49 AM

Quote :

"Yeah. Someday people will understand that the opposite of nay is yea. Yay!"

Sweet jesus I <3 me some Skwinkle

7/14/2010 10:29:02 AM

Quote :

"alot"

I can no longer see this without thinking of the creature from this blog: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html


My pet peeve is roll vs. role. It pisses me off to no end to hear someone talking about course roles when they are referring to lists of students.

Has no one mentioned sophOmore yet?

7/14/2010 1:15:44 PM

cheedar



seem to be some fools running around here today spelling chedder.

7/14/2010 1:21:28 PM

Quote :

"TKE-Teg All American 31258 Posts user info edit post cheedar seem to be some fools running around here today spelling chedder. 7/14/2010 1:21:28 PM"

lol

7/14/2010 1:26:48 PM

?

i merely wrote out how people are misspelling it.

7/14/2010 1:27:54 PM

oh i thought you unintentionally misspelled it cheedar

[Edited on July 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM. Reason : saw the chedder thread, fuck idk]

7/14/2010 1:28:41 PM

wolpfack

7/14/2010 1:52:10 PM

7/14/2010 2:12:12 PM

raspberry

7/14/2010 2:52:58 PM

So, uh...it's "c'mon," not "common."

7/27/2010 4:56:09 PM

Actually, it is "come on". I reject the usage of contractions.

7/27/2010 4:56:48 PM

"Yarmulke."

7/28/2010 9:56:32 AM

y'all, not ya'll

The words being combined are 'you' and 'all'.

7/28/2010 10:53:34 AM

people who can't correctly use

lose/loose

drive me batshit.

7/28/2010 11:35:51 AM

Quote :

"Police can't even keep the petifiles out"

http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/NC-Cary-Cary-Brook-Apartments-formerly-Misty-Woods.html

8/9/2010 6:16:42 PM

Cue the queue, que?

8/9/2010 6:23:00 PM

my newest annoyance is the incorrect usage of "fewer" vs "less"

8/9/2010 6:51:15 PM

^ I hate that one. And I hate explaining it to people. I just can't manage to get it through to some people.
"Fewer is for things you can count. Less is for things you can't. Fewer pencils. Less milk."
"But you can count milk."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can. Three gallons of milk."
"You're counting the gallons, not the milk. Less milk. Fewer gallons of milk."
"What's the difference?"
[dammit]

8/10/2010 12:05:51 PM

bump

7/18/2011 3:17:29 PM

"out of pocket" when you're out of the office

The fuck's that even mean

7/18/2011 3:18:35 PM

yeah this one sketch dude i have to work with sometimes says that shit

7/18/2011 3:19:37 PM

dominate instead of dominant

7/18/2011 3:21:35 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AxYBjF761Y

7/18/2011 3:23:14 PM

together
maintenance
tomorrow

7/18/2011 3:30:38 PM

Quote :

""out of pocket" when you're out of the office"

just another stupid business cliche

7/18/2011 3:40:22 PM

just another stupid business cliche [that originated from the military].

7/18/2011 4:00:35 PM

I have a friend who thinks she's hot shit because she's a teacher and always talks about how smart she is. On both her plenty of fish profile and facebook profile she has words misspelled and misused. Words that any adult of reasonable intelligence should know how to use correctly. I want to call her out about it, but I don't know how to bring it up without being an asshole.

Also, have a coworker who proclaims herself to be a "highly inteligent, under achiever" on her facebook. I want to talk shit to her too, but I hate work tension.

7/18/2011 4:03:12 PM

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"highly inteligent, under achiever"

hahahahahahahahahahaha

7/18/2011 4:05:55 PM

7/18/2011 4:11:47 PM

Quote :

"also, how do people make it through college without understanding the difference between sale and sell?"

Yes, this one bugs me probably the most.

Maybe I'm getting fancy, but I feel like people should be able to tell loose from lose and advise from advice.

7/18/2011 4:20:39 PM

I to have issues with grammarial errors

7/18/2011 4:21:23 PM

Also, I have such a hatred for people that use "myself" instead of being able to determine between "me" and "I." It's really prevalent on reality tv and it really grinds my gears. Like:

"John and myself went to the store."

"He gave it to John and myself."

NO!

7/18/2011 4:27:37 PM

^ I hate when people use "I" in all situations because for some reason they think it's always the correct word.

"He gave it to John and I."

"They took a photo with Betty and I."

7/18/2011 4:30:59 PM

FroshKiller, the rule on capitalization of titles is that all words except for articles, coordinating conjunctions, and prepositions of fewer than five letters, all occurring strictly between the first and last words of the title, should be capitalized; I actually am a bit annoyed when computer-generated listings miss that last exception, even though I know no way to rectify it, because it actually can disambiguate things (the meaning of the title of the Live song "People like You" is slightly different from "People Like You" because in the former "like" is a preposition while in the latter "Like" is a verb).

Anyway, you should note that words other than articles, coordinating conjunctions, and prepositions should always be capitalized in titles in the English language (other languages have other conventions, like in Spanish only the first word and any proper nouns should be capitalized); this includes "big" and "if" and "you" even though all of those words have fewer than five letters...and it also includes "good" and "well" for that matter.

Quote :

"use of "good" and "well" its really not that hard good=nouns well=verbs"

Technically the distinction is that "good" is an adjective and "well" is an adverb (albeit one that only appears to modify verbs or their participles, rather than adjectives and other adverbs not derived directly from verbs), except that when "well" describes a state of health it is an adjective; actually "well" is in all five of the open classes of English grammar (verb, noun, adjective, adverb, and interjection).

Grammar is more complicated than you might think: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Part_of_speech

[Edited on July 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM. Reason : ^Just between you and me, I also abhor that "hypercorrection"

7/18/2011 4:49:20 PM

You know what I abhor?

People who argue points made by people in a thread more than a year ago. Now, run along and eat a spoonful of shit.

7/18/2011 4:59:42 PM

Quote :

"You know what I abhor?"

definitely people who use the word "abhor"

7/18/2011 5:00:58 PM

SOAPBOX! In my Chit Chat?

7/18/2011 5:01:27 PM